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Query No. 2: LETHAL WEAPON

In our movie we play these people who are in this movie about how they don’t know they’re actually in this other movie 

Conspiracy Query No. 1

Conspire… to breathe with? What’s the etymology? “It’s in the air,” phrase functions both as idiom and figure for info spread, of meaning, of memes (mememememe a chain of me-peeps linked, subverted we people w/ myth flipped, domination in the mix, an oscillating morpheme dependent on a Saussurean whir of m w m w m w m wmwmw feeding into (and […]

Experimental Lament

I meant it, permanent ex, I meant it.I, late, repeat per term lament I trip, expat (mere I), ex (rent me!) I limp relate, relent; I preen, temp ex, I merit next ex, next exit, next mentalpair experiment. In a tent, ape reflex mate per mate, male peer I relatetime per time in permanent map, tame  I merit extreme time, irate ex, […]

Longing for Lists

Twitter poem No. 2* Not every great movie fell the direction Lucky the Tree did deer in the yardsweet tabby kitten on porch rather fetching nerdboyfriendfucking just broke my laptop not what I needed but what more could you ask for? A funeral for sea level Clintshot by police on August 16th Miners in South Africa charged with the murder […]

Pacific Heights to Soma

      Muni 1 If I wrote the kids off the bus where would theybe? The shadow is light. A concern we may not share. Suggestion of powerdread foil, dice, amnesiac diet or deity, lit-yeared reception in parking lot shade sculpture, Clay & FranklinVan Ness next, oil slick from old saxophones 

A Tongue-Twister for Tibetans

 Twitter poem No. 1* Where Futurama translator Queen Meet the Deadgave gay writers a Trojan Horse. WHOWILL JESSE VENTURAENDORSE? China’s African Union HQ? Al Jazeera English? Occupy Oakland? New Study gross as it isof RNC appears with Tiananmen tank man. Facebook sends jobsmock public, rolls wleaders affected by sadomasochistic tarts, anti-locust Hong Kongers,Higgs democracy, burningthe black flag, police violence. Newt Gingrich’s biggestdonor: gambling Asiansin […]

BOMB IRAN

A poem from a set written not long after we moved to Shanghai and settled down in the French Concession near the old publisher’s row on Shaoxing Lu (once known as the Rue Victor-Emmanuel III). It was published at some point in Sal Mimeo. I tend not to think about old poems much, but the recent surge in American-Iranian […]

The Great Sages

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